Groups
Groups are run as counselling in a group setting, and meet regularly (weekly or monthly). Attendees get to know other group members and can benefit from support and understanding from other participants, as well as hearing different perspectives.
Facilitators will offer information and exercises to enable this process and guide the group to help you get what you need. Facilitators are also there to help establish and maintain agreements on how the group will run. Useful coping strategies often come from attending a group, but this is usually achieved through a deepening understanding of yourself through contact with, and feedback from others, which informs what strategies might work best for you.
To enquire and enrol in a group that you are interested in, you will need to contact the Counselling Service by email -
br-ucsworkshops@nottingham.ac.uk
The email will then be directed to the facilitator who will contact you to book you in for a pre group. At the pre group you will learn what the group is about, when it will run and if it appropriate to your needs. The pre group is carried out on MS Teams and is roughly 20 minutes in duration. You can also be referred into the group is via one of our counsellors, a mental health advisor, a support and wellbeing officer or a chaplain.
Our groups running this academic year are as follows -
International Student Support Group
This monthly support group for international student offers a safe space for you to talk with other international students who are likely to understand what it’s really like for you being at university a long way from ‘home’.
The themes that have come up include: - changes in relationships with people at home and in the UK, the successes and worries about studies and coping, identity issues, practical issues such as appointments with doctors, where to find certain foods, cultural differences and adjusting to the British social language.
Referral into the group is via one of our counsellors, a mental health advisor, a support and wellbeing officer or a chaplain. You would meet with the facilitator before being offered a place on the group.
Currently this group is being offered in-person at University Park.